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About Octavia E. Butler
American science fiction and speculative fiction author
Octavia E. Butler was an American science fiction and speculative fiction author. She won the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards, and in 1995 became the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. Her work helped define modern speculative fiction, and she is especially known for writing that brought discipline and force to the genre. The record here shows 113 quotes from her.
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- “Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote th…”Octavia E. Butler
- “When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker span…”Octavia E. Butler
- “Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.”Octavia E. Butler
- “Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and…”Octavia E. Butler
Explore Science Fiction
- “Science Fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe w…”Ursula K. Le Guin
- “When I was a kid, I had no perception whatever that science fiction was supposed to be a boys' club.”Ann Leckie
- “We’re a nonviolent collective working to undermine the Trust and free the Badlands. Once the Trust is exposed…”Georgia Clark
Explore Reading
- “Sit here, so I may writeyou into a poem and make you eternal.”Kamand Kojouri
- “There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, becaus…”Tom Felton
- “Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can un…”William Ellery Channing
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Books by Octavia E. Butler
Kindred
1979
Fledgling
2005
Parable of the Sower
1993
Parable of the Talents
1998
Adulthood Rites
1988